So now that you ready to take on the certification's exam, have watched (and taking notes of!) all possible videos of the exam to take, read the theory, created your own lab environment and tested stuff on it, it is time to actually pass the exam, and this is is where the dump questions for exams come handy. As it happens with all extreme debates, the truth lies somewhere in between You hear some people saying that all certifications are rubbish, and that the experience is the only thing that count, while others argue that certifications align your knowledge with best practices recommendations of the products and technologies that you support. Now, I am not going to debate here whether certifications are right for the IT industry or not. Not just they license the product to the customer (which the customer will have to pay for, of course) but they also found very lucrative to license the knowledge of the product too, and their target market is you, the engineer, and you (or your company on your behalf) will also have to pay for that knowledge-license at some point

Yes, indeed they want to take as much money from you as they can. Instead, every time your cert is for a refresh you have to pay the full amount of the exam, either on the spot or as a voucher, as if starting from zero.

none of their certification programs offers something like a 'membership', where you can subscribe to (as you will always want to keep your certifications up to date) and get significant discount or offers for whenever your certification renewal is due. Yes, you name it: Microsoft, Cisco, VMware, Apple, Splunk, Juniper. Whether your role is SysAdmin, DevOps, Network Admin, Coder, Database Guru, etc, you know very well that the products you work with have certifications programs, primarily to prove to others what you really know about those products, but also as a means for the manufactures of those products to squeeze as much money as they can from you. your life expectancy has just been reduced by 5 yearsĪ joke you think? May be not! The truth is that, if you work in the IT industry, you'll need to put a lot of effort and time (and really a lot) aside of your 9-to-5 Monday-to-Friday work schedule to keep up with new technologies, and of course to get your IT Certifications up to date or acquire new ones.

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